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Offline Yuris N

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This is Greek ? Anyone can read it?
« on: May 05, 2017, 07:13:56 pm »
 I'm thinking it's Greek language , hope someone can translate for me thanks

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Re: This is Greek ? Anyone can read it?
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2017, 10:54:02 am »
Hi Yuris,

It looks like Greek to me.

I see: "DIO PHANTO MHTRIPO..."

"DIO" is usually a reference to a deity or a god.

Could "MHTRIPO..." be a reference to the city of Tripolis?

There are other members here who can decipher it much better than I can.

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Re: This is Greek ? Anyone can read it?
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2017, 11:38:53 am »
Thanks a lot meepzorp ,

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Re: This is Greek ? Anyone can read it?
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2017, 05:19:29 pm »
There's another one , l love that writing

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Re: This is Greek ? Anyone can read it?
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2017, 04:46:28 pm »
MHTPH :Greek_Pi: O is not Tripolis but any city - metripolis or metropolis / metripolitun or metroplitun.

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Re: This is Greek ? Anyone can read it?
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2017, 07:10:15 pm »
I don't know whether it has anything to do with this inscription, but
Diophantus was a Greek mathematician of the 3rd century AD. He discovered,
among other things the method for solving the kind of problems you may
have encountered in high school algebra, asking "How old is Bill? "How tall
is Ann?" The mathematical equations used for solving such problems are
called Diophantine equations-Jim Anderson

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Re: This is Greek ? Anyone can read it?
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2017, 07:16:00 pm »
Hallo Yuris,
yes both of them are in greek language.
The first text is:

ΔΙΟΦΑΝΤΟΣ ΜΗΤΡΙ ΓΟ-ΝΑ(?) ΑΠΗΝΗ ΕΥΧΗΝ
[Diophantos (masculine name) to mother (?) the rough/hard prayer]

Perikles
Ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἡ τοῦ νομίσματος ἐπορίσθη χρῆσις...,ὃ τῶν χρησίμων αὐτὸ ὂν εἶχε τὴν χρείαν εὐμεταχείριστον πρὸς τὸ ζῆν.
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Re: This is Greek ? Anyone can read it?
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2017, 04:19:50 am »
Thanks guys this is brillant, it very hard language  , l had that photos around 2 year in my computer, always wondered what it was , I was thinking it was grave stone 

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Re: This is Greek ? Anyone can read it?
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2017, 04:28:34 am »
I wrote it down , maybe this would be easier ,

 

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